Job Mathew Raikes

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1767 - 1833

Biography

London merchant who had married Charlotte, the daughter of Nathaniel Bayly (q.v.) and who died in 1833. Raikes appears to have held a mortgage over the Bayly family estates, Roslin, Brimmer Hall, Trinity and Tryall, all in St Mary Jamaica, possibly as surviving executor of Nathaniel Bayly. The compensation was paid to Job Mathew Raikes's executors including Brice Pearse (q.v.) who had married Charlotte Raikes at Woodford in 1796, another son-in-law Edward Rose Tunno (q.v.) and Job Mathew Raikes' brother-in-law, the banker Isaac Currie (q.v.).

Charles Raikes (1812-1885), Job Mathew's son, and writer on India, appears in the Oxford DNB. He was also a committee member of the Eyre Defence Fund 1866. The 1857 uprising in India 'strengthened his belief that Indians needed to be ruled despotically': see his Notes on the Revolt in the North-Western Provinces (1858).

Three of Raikes's children were born while he was resident at Theobalds Park, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1810, 1812 and 1814. It's not clear how long he lived at Theobalds Park.